Hello, friends.
So this is the latest issue
of the new scientists
cover story
Rebuilding Reality.
A bold new way to think about
how the universe fits together.
A bold new way to think about
how the universe fits together.
To think about how
the universe fits together.
Rebuilding reality.
The author of this article
is Heinrich Päs,
a theoretical physicist at the technical University
of Dortmund in Germany,
and the author of All is One.
All is One.
He should have gone a little further
and said, All is One Mind,
All is one consciousness.
But let me read you
a little bit of this article
because it's definitely progress
but needs some more progress.
So I'm
going to read a little bit and then comment a little bit.
Reality Reconstructed.
It's time to ditch the idea that everything is
always made of smaller stuff
and instead think of the universe
as a single quantum whole, says
physicist Heinrich Päs.
Imagine you could see through everyday
objects, through the stuff they're made of.
If you zoomed in
on the arm of a chair, say,
you would see that it's just made of atoms.
Zoom in again and you would see that
those atoms contain subatomic particles called protons,
neutrons and electrons.
Zooming
further still, you would see that the photons
and neutrons are comprised of quarks.
These are the layers of reality.
And this is how physicists understand the universe
by breaking everything down
into its constituent parts, an approach
known as "reductionism".
As a particle physicist, I grew up on this philosophy.
It has
brought physics a long way.
It is how we built our current picture of matter
and its workings, after all.
But now,
with further progress stalling,
I'm convinced we need to go beyond.
We need to go about things differently from here,
rather than zooming even further inwards.
I think we need to zoom out.
In doing so,
we may see that everything there is, including such
seemingly fundamental things
such as space and time
fragment out of a unified whole.
They emerge from a unified whole.
This might sound like philosophy or mysticism,
but it is in fact a direct result of applying
quantum mechanics to the entire cosmos.
When you do that, you realize that the universe
isn't fundamentally made of separate parts at all,
but is instead a
single quantum object.
It is a radical idea and one
which we are just beginning to test experimentally.
But if it is correct, it could help solve some of
the most puzzling mysteries in the physics in physics,
and upend the way we think about the universe.
Okay.
Then gets into very detailed math.
And you know what he calls effective field theories
and talks about Higgs boson,
etc., etc., technical details
that we don't need
to get into at the moment.
But towards the end, he says,
as we proceed up the scale, size, scale,
and as we proceed,
proceed up the size
scale and down in energy,
the effects of lower energies could be broken
by a process called decoherence,
which is how
the wave function collapses.
One of the
theories is decoherence.
But then he actually goes on to talk about
quantum entanglement
as being the universal principle
throughout the cosmos.
And then he says,
if we do find evidence to support this idea,
it would dramatically alter
the way we conceive of the cosmos.
It would mean we could not only see
a world in a grain of sand
as the point William Blake once said,
but we could also quite literally see
the entire universe in its
tiniest pieces and particles.
While this might sound like
just a different way of going about physics.
It is much more than that.
I believe we are on the way
to a completely new understanding of how
the one how the universe is put together.
So not bad
coming from a scientist.
But where is the missing
element in this article?
The missing element is
that the universe is not only
a quantum entanglement
whole, wholeness.
That means everything is
quantum entangled, everything,
but it is a quantum
entangled mind.
Because these theories
would be impossible
without the mind.
The mind is the common factor.
And even mind is not a good word.
Awareness.
Because what we call the mind is a species-specific
modification of that awareness.
So in fact,
the universe is not
just a unified whole,
not just a single quantum whole,
it is a single quantum entangled
awareness.
And each of our minds
is part of that one
entangled awareness.
And what this article
says, and yet does not say
is reality is constructed.
But where is it constructed
In consciousness.
Without consciousness, you can't do science.
You can't come up with these theories.
You can't make observations.
You can't
design experiments,
nor can you come up
or conceive these theories.
So we have to go
one step more, my friends.
And one day we'll get there.
You are the whole universe.
You and I.
And actually, every sentient being
is the whole universe as one awareness.
One awareness that includes plants,
that includes every sentient being,
that includes
us humans.
Innumerable points of view
in that one consciousness
looking at itself as the universe,
because what we call the objective universe,
including quarks, particles,
force fields
are actually perceptual
and cognitive activities
in that one consciousness.
So who are you?
You are the universe.
Looking at itself
from a unique point of view.
You are the holo movement
as the body mind entangled
with that which you see
that that which you see
is not an objective world out there.
It is the interpretation
of our own perceptual
and cognitive activities
in the one mind
or in the one consciousness.
So each of us
inhabits our own universe,
but it is the same universe
seen as a holo movement
from a particular point of view.
You and I, and this is the observation deck
which the universe
is using to look at itself
from a unique point of view.
In the deeper reality,
we are members of one mind,
one consciousness
and one body,
and we are not
rebuilding reality.
We are understanding reality
as that one
invisible, irreducible,
fundamental, formless, infinite,
entangled awareness,
experiencing itself
as infinite knowers,
infinite modes of knowing
and infinite objects known,
except they are not objects, they're perceptual activities
and cognitive activities of our own self.
We see the universe
and we call it that out there.
But it is us appearing as that.
And if we really understand that,
then all of science has to be revised.
Tell me what you think.
I find this very exhilarating.